Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:35:41 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 11:05:38, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 10:43:34, Mathieu Pagé wrote: > >>>Do you plan to buy an old Sockel 754-Athlon? I would rather go for Sockel 939 >>>the are much cooler and consume very little power and hence very easy and good >>>to overclock. >>> >>>An AMD 64 3000+ is very cheap but most probably overclockable to 2.4 GHz. >>> >>>To answer your question, if your AMD Athlon 64 3400+ runs on 2.4 GHz (there are >>>different versions) you have most probably the chess performance of an Pentium 4 >>>3.8 GHz. >> >>I'm not a fan of overclocking. This mean I won't overclock it. >> >>This said is there an other reason to go with an socket 939 processor. I choosed >>this particular processor because I can have a good deal on it. >> >>Advices are welcome. >> >>Mathieu Pagé > >The socket 939 has more future perspective, means you could exchange the CPU if >you desire in the future more easily w/o changing the motherboard while socket >754 will be abandoned by AMD to my knowledge. >On the other hand, you can always buy a new motherboard in the future for 100 >bucks compatible to socket 939. Im not sure about the advantage of 939 right >now, except heat and energy consumption which favorites the newer 939 chips. You >normally get better deals for socket 754 systems because they are older. > >regards >Andy 939 has dual-core potential, for one important detail...
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